Albania and a 5.8 magnitude natural disaster shook parts of this impoverished Balkan nation. Albania's defence ministry said it was the "strongest quake in the country in the last 20 to 30 years"...

Rugby World Cup organisers were on Saturday monitoring an approaching tropical storm that will strengthen into a typhoon and could brush Japan's southernmost main island over the weekend but they said...

Police closed Kowloon station, also on the Airport Express route, where about 400 protesters had gathered, shouting abuse and vandalizing property. The airport - the world's eighth busiest - has cha...

Google on Sunday honoured Junko Tabei , the first Japanese woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest , on her 80th birthday with a cool animated doodle. She scaled the Mt. Everest on May 16, 1975, ...

The Labour leader said one of the deputies should be a woman to reflect the "diversity within our society". Clive Lewis, a shadow Treasury minister and supporter of Corbyn, said the leadership had...

Brown's release from the team coincided with a report in Sports Illustrated that another woman accused Brown of sexual harassment while she working at his home. During the offseason, Kraft was p...

Williams said the hotel had switched the WiFi off and a coach had arrived at 8.20pm to take guests to the airport but the hotel would not permit them to collect passengers. The government and the avia...

After blocking numerous fake accounts of the Indian Army, Twitter started clamping down on accounts that spread fake news . Six Twitter accounts that have been linked to the Saudi regime were a...

Rouhani said the presence of foreign forces in the region would create insecurity for oil and shipping. Following the attacks , the United States announced on Friday that it was sending reinforceme...

The trade agreement reached last June after nearly a decade of negotiations was already put into doubt due to concerns over fires in the Amazon rainforest and the politics of Brazilian President Jair ...

Now, perhaps you only recently became a citizen, or maybe you've lived here all your life and you're finally old enough to vote. Democracy services' Marguerite Delbet said Aucklanders would be abl...

He said Mr Lunney is a hardworking family man who is entitled to go about his life without dealing with intimidation and violence. 'They drove for a period of time to an unknown location whereupon h...

As part of a deal, China wants the USA to roll back the tariffs that it imposed and lift restrictions on American companies doing business with Huawei, the Chinese telecommunications giant. After last...

The backstop is an insurance policy to keep the 500-km (300-mile) border between Ireland, which will remain in the European Union, and the British province of Northern Ireland open after Brexit. If th...

FedEx said this week that its business outlook for the year has darkened dramatically amid the U.S. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang told reporters Friday that customs officials in the...

He said the idea is to come out of the summit, not with all problems solved "but with enhanced momentum". "There must be worldwide coordination and transformational change to limit global warming". Pr...

Responding to a question during a press conference marking the start of the General Assembly's 74th session, he said he would continue to advocate for the peaceful settlement of the decades-old Kashmi...

Dozens of people have entered temporary shelters in Cabo San Lucas, according to local civil protection authorities who warned residents to retreat from coastal areas as the rain began falling. Colima...

Eight years on from the real uprising, life is still tough in those areas, with unemployment higher than in 2010 and public services seeming to have deteriorated. Ben Ali was ousted in January 2011 in...

Karen - who was a locum teacher at Underberg Primary School - had been about three months pregnant and celebrated her birthday on Monday. "She said she had been told there was a party at the chalet ...

The ceremony included US Marine band performances of the national anthem of both countries and a 19-gun salute and inspection of troops. He also said the Rose Garden state dinner "will be quite some...

On Wednesday, a photo from the early 1990s surfaced of Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau in brownface makeup at an Arabian Nights-themed costume party at a private high school in British Columbia where ...

Trump also made a ceremonial "first ride" to the top where she met with local students as the first public visitors to the newly reopened monument. A 2011 quake had left cracks in the stones around to...

But why was President Donald Trump so interested in Hunter Biden? "A US president, now, is using taxpayer money to pressure a foreign government to smear his political opponent", the firebrand...

What more will it take after the Aga Khan vacation scandal, the Lavscam scandal and the Mark Norman prosecution scandal - plus the findings of two ethics commissioners that he violated federal conflic...

Earlier in the day, the U.S. State Department required the imminent departure of the two diplomats who are members of Cuba's Permanent Mission to the UN, accusing them of having "attempts to conduct ...

Kennedy and great-nephew of President John F. Kennedy and Senator Ted Kennedy , who represented MA in the Senate for nearly 47 years until his death in 2009. "I think the real question is, whether it...

Besides Thunberg, speaker include Vic Barrett, a 20-year-old plaintiff in the climate lawsuit Juliana vs U.S., Xiuhtezcatl Martinez, a 19-year-old climate Activist and Youth Director of the advocacy...

In a clear sign that North Korea sees nothing worth celebrating, the state media and propaganda websites had not made a single mention of the anniversary as of Wednesday evening, a day before the anni...

Paris - French police used tear gas in Paris on Saturday to disperse anti-government demonstrators who are trying to revive the yellow vest movement in protest at perceived economic injustice and...

Schiff did not divulge the subject of the complaint, but said the committee "places the highest importance on the protection of whistleblowers and their complaints to Congress". He is expected to test...

The sheriff said authorities believe the apparent shooter had been having a disagreement for some months with one of the men who was fatally shot. "I don't think most of these people were intended v...

Carter has served around half her sentence, but a MA state parole board rejected her application to be set free this week. U.S. woman Michelle Carter , who is now serving a fifteen-month sentence f...

Mr Barclay and Mr Barnier discussed three papers submitted by London with ideas on replacing the backstop provisions in the Brexit deal struck previous year but rejected by British MPs. Mr. Major ...

A glance at the 3700 strikes around the world registered with Fridays For Future . Similar protests, inspired by 16-year-old Swedish activist Greta Thunberg , were planned in some 150 countries ye...